Grange Valley Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.368 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grange Valley Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Outstanding, from the inspection on 2 May 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Grange Valley Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | 0.368 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 71% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- Reception 2025's last distance offered, 0.368 miles, was the shortest of 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance and of its 3 published years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 47 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 19 first-choice families (40%) were not offered a place.
- 12.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other St. Helens schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Heyes Avenue, Haydock, St Helens, WA11 0XQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 277 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding Inspected 2 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at Grange Valley Primary school.”
- “They receive an exceptional education.”
- “Pupils are happy and arrive full of smiles at the start of each school day.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 71% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 47 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 28 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in St. Helens.
- St James' Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Legh Vale Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lyme Community Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broad Oak Community Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The District CofE Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published